Question

1. Read the passage carefully .

(a) A very important world problem - in fact,I am inclined to say it is the most

important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time - is

the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources .

(b) It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase

which is important .It works out to be about 1.6 percent per annum net in-

crease .In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million

additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million -rather

less than six month's climb in world population .

(c) Take Australia . There are ten million people in Australia ;so it takes the

world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that

vast country. Let us take our own crowded country -England and Wales: forty -

five to fifty million people - just about a year's supply .

(d) By this time tomorrow and every day , there will be added to the earth

120,000 extra people - just about the population of the city of York.

(e) I am not taking about birth rate . This is net increase. To give you some

idea of birth rate, look at the second's hand of your watch . Every second three

babies are born somewhere in the world . Another baby ! You cannot speak

quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

(f) This enormous increase of population will create immense problems . By

A.D.2000,unless something desperate happens ,there will be as many as

7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth !So this is a problem which

you are going to see in your lifetime.

Answer these questions

1. What is most of important of all the problems the world's facing today ?

(a) corruption (b)population pressure

(c)global warming (d) domestic violence

2. What is the % of net increase in population every year ?

(a) 1.9% per annum (b) 1.7 per annum

(c) 1.6 % per annum (d) 6.1% per annum

3. Which country has population of twenty million ?

(a) Austraila (b)U.S.A
(c) Canada (d) India

4. How much times Australia will take to consider itself vast population country ?

(a) less than three months (b) less than 2 months

(c) more than six month (d) just a year

5 . Antonymn of "decrease" in paragraph 6 is

(a)Immense (b)Increase

(c)Desperate (d)Surface

6. The antonym of "depopulated" in paragraph no. 3 is

(a) Immense (b) crowded

(c) vigorous (d) numerous

7. The number of extra people added to population of city of York____

(a) 120,000 (b) 12,000

(c) 1,200,000 (d) 100020

8. The synonym of ' speed' in paragraph 5 is

(a) pace (b) rate per time

(c) second hand (d) quickly

9. What is birth rate of world ?

(a)7,000,000,000 (b)5,000,000,000

(c)4,000,000 (d)7,7000,00000

10. The synonym of "huge" as given in paragraph no. 6 is

(a ) desperate (b) enormous

(c) immense (d) none

11. What is population of England ?

(a ) 40-50 million (b) 45-50 million

(c) 40-60 million (d) 45-75 million

12. What is actually dangerous in population problem

(a) rate of decreasing accidents

(b) rate of increasing population

(c) rate of increasing global warming

(d) rate of increasing domestic violence​

Answer 1

Answer:

1)ans-b)population pressure

2)ans-c)1.6% per annum

3)ans-c)Canada

4)ans-a)less than 3 months

5)ans-b)Increase

6)ans-b)crowded

7)ans-a)120,000